News TV piracy site shut down

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/22/television_torrent_site_shut_down/1

The torrenting community takes another blow - TV-links.co.uk was shut down by British authorities late last week leaving only a few thousands torrent sites left to pick from.

 

Nooooo!

Oh man that sucks! I love tv-links... I use that more than a I watch actual TV! *Grumbles about authorities taking away all the best stuff*

 

man i hated tv-links anyway, most of the clips ran in a browser (visibly ie no fullscreen) and were crap quality. Still tis a shame to see the site go. wonder how long till stage6 is shut down...

apologies for the link i forgot myself

 

stage 6 wont be shut down. It is protected in a similar way to youtube and all the sites that the files are actually hosted on. Everything is user submitted and when you sign up as a user you agree not to upload anything copyrighted. When people do, its up to the hosting site to take them down, but its not actually their fault. Even though I'm sure some sites, like dailymotion actually get most their visits from sites like tv-links.

Also, tv-links wasn't a torrent site.

 

RE:Stage6 - fair enough then, still the "content police" aren't doing a good job are they..

 

No! How else am I going to pass school time!

(well, I k of a few ways actually..)

 

If they got the good US shows over here quicker then site like these would not exist, but eztv is a good one too. like i can wait 6 month for heroes, lost and family guy!

 

Can someone please explain to me why TV-Links has been labelled a "torrent" site? Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

 

Last time I checked tv-links.co.uk was not a torrent site.........

 

^ Agreeing with above comments, TV-Links was not a torrent site.

Tis a shame its gone but what can you do I suppose.

 

i agree with the above.....

anyway, its eztv for me anyway..... until the guys that make the media grow some common sense......

 

Thanks will., I didn't get involved with the editing of this story, but I have updated the story to reflect what TV Links actually was.

 

no problemo

I always wondered why they didn't make it a user submitted site... They were always going to get caught eventually but with user submitted links they would at least had some level of immunity.

 

Wow, just Wow

i thought TV were on pretty stable legal ground tbh ..... - the same kind that TPB, Demonoid and Isohunt were ... oh wait
Anyway, i wonder what the guy will get charged for .... and if it will stand trial

/me waits for the TV-links replacement site, also, the owner of TV-Links has never profited at all from it, they don't host ad's, and they have to pay for the server .....
Anyway, its hardly a blow to TV piracy, all the videos are still there, its just harder to get them ...

 

ffs where am I going to watch south park and QI now?

 

link removed - linking to websites promoting piracy is against the forum rules

Once again, proving the system doesnt work, oh yeah!

 

Yea they did. There were adds all over that site.

 

HM, i guess i still don't think of that stuff as piracy
Also, you talk about/link TPB, isohunt, etc etc all the time ... whats the difference, Hell you linked tv-links in this article ... (except the site is down, for now)

So is saying the name acceptable, or perhaps hinting what the url would be

HM i had never seen any, and i remember a forum discussion saying they would never implement them because making money just makes it oh so much more illegal

 

Talking about their actions and condoning those actions (by linking to specifics) is a different thing. Saying "The Pirate Bay helps to distribute copyrighted material" is slightly different to saying "hay guys, the latest episode of <insert favourite show here> is available for download on pirate bay <link>".

If you've read most if not all of our news on subjects such as this, we're talking about the trials and tribulations of these places, not about specifics - the news is kept deliberately vague because we're reporting the news... nothing more, nothing less.

 

Do not fool yourself, you promote them by posting about them.